Saturday, March 5, 2016

Fox News Hosted A Debate And A Hockey Fight Broke Out

Thursday’s debate in
Detroit hit rock bottom for me.
Apparently, to many, the feeling is mutual. The underlying fear is the effrontery of
penis innuendos and name-calling is becoming profoundly detrimental to the image
of the GOP. For all intents and purposes
the debate stage has moved to the gutter sewer.

I believe that Fox News is responsible for the hockey
fight that broke out. I remember the
consensus praise the cable channel received for the manner in which the first
debate in August of 2015 was handled.
This last debate devolved into an ugly exhibition of mudslinging which the
Democrats have already racked for video evidence that their presumptive nominee
will be a far, far better leader of the country than anyone that emerges from
the GOP convention in Cleveland.

I blame Fox for not preemptively
addressing protesters entering the debate hall.
There was no effort made to insist the audience remain silent during the
debate. In addition, Fox failed to
adequately moderate the debate. This was
evident when Marco Rubio persisted in deploying the now very tiresome mockery
of Trump’s “tan”, the size of his fingers and all the other schoolboy
childishness. Rubio’s boyish appearance
coupled with his immaturity on the debate stage is part and parcel for why he
is polling so poorly. Others have
noticed that Marco, on the campaign trail and on the dais, is “Red Bull-ed up”. I believe that Rubio regrets having embarked
on these cheap attacks and now cannot stop himself. He is
desperate for attention.

Even
as Trump led polls in the months before the primaries began, his biggest rivals
Cruz and Rubio, largely avoided attacking him calculating that he would
implode. To say that they gravely
miscalculated would be an understatement.

The
ever-harsher tones of Ted Cruz, I feel, are damaging his chances of overcoming
Trump in the primaries. The more Cruz
declares he is the only candidate who can defeat Trump the more desperate he comes
across to voters. Of course, this
election cycle is like no other in my lifetime.

Today
we have three states—Kansas, Kentucky and Louisiana—casting their ballots. There
could be states where only Trump meets a 20% requirement. In some states, that could mean sharing
delegates with the second-place finisher; in others, it could give him a
“backdoor winner-take-all” victory, enabling him to win all or most delegates
from a state with only a plurality.

Trump
leads Cruz by 15.6 points in Louisiana.In Kansas, his lead over Cruz is 6 points but that was before Super
Tuesday and the pleading of Mitt Romney.Kentucky, which hasn’t conducted polling since November of 2015,
projects a 13 point lead over Rubio.

After March 15’s
primaries have concluded, 36 states and territories will have voted on the
Republican side, and close to 60% of all GOP national delegates will have been
awarded.

About that Romney
speech, politicos have been sharing schemes for how Marco parlays a victory out
of winning only one state, or Ted roars back, or Kasich has to finish second in
Ohio.

What’s more, Romney
pushes the ideology of the elite in the party. They are protected from much of
the roughness of the world. More to the
point, they are protected from the world they have created.

Romney claimed to
understand the anger of voters. The
unprotected (that’s you and me) watched over the last 20 years and realized the
protected were not looking out for us or our beloved country.

I resent their
interference in this election. The
people are speaking boldly about the direction in which they want their country
to go while the party overlords try desperately to circumvent their will.UPDATE: In my haste I
neglected to include data for the caucuses in Maine. There are 23 proportional delegates at
stake. Lance
Dutson’s Whip Count Insider’s Survey overwhelming predicted a win for
Trump. Because of the idiosyncratic
nature of the Maine electorate national pundit Nate Silver isn’t sure what will
happen.

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